Backwards To The Future

Have you noticed when you pay for more but end up getting less
Those reducing all your portions often use the word “progress”
It’s confusing and conflicting and I really must confess
There is nothing more annoying or unlikely to impress

This word can turn an icon with a coveted address
Into rubble and replace it with square footage to excess
And I’m sure it will be loudly touted in that tunnel mess
When we’re backed up going nowhere in some lane misnamed express

It will haunt you on the phone as with diminishing success
You attempt to reach a human with each button that you press
Or when surfing all those channels and cannot, to your distress
Find a single show that doesn’t bore or clinically depress

So be leery of those charlatans whose greedy eyes assess
Which one of your life’s pleasantries they’d profit to possess
For they care not how their selfish plans cause lifestyles to regress
Just as long as to prosperity, they in the end progress